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mircea_popescu: why do you think the fiat role as a medium of exchange needs fixing ?
mircea_popescu: think about for a minute : i could hijack your bank's printing press just by moving my coins around ? sweet moses on a stick, this is like USD 2.0
mircea_popescu: antephialtic which is kind-of why i believe it fundamentally can not be measured.
mircea_popescu: if they run or if they fight, they're doing it together.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know what happens to quarreling dogs once they see a wolf ?
mircea_popescu: antephialtic the problem, as BingoBoingo pointed out to you, is that in your model the greatest economic activity will occur whenever a major holder moves cold wallets.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic if you expect to justify a theoretical model by the effect it has on data you are living in a state of sin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one advantage of all the idiots being on the field is that the smart people kinda tend to just stick into the same team.
mircea_popescu: someone should make a papp to bring cyrpt to the ipnohe.
mircea_popescu: i think this is memeworthy. the business insider cyrpt occurency.
mircea_popescu: someone was talking about my editor ? she's just said to me : "The price of Dogecoin, the world’s third most traded cyrptocurrency / did they seriously publish "cyrptocurrency"?"
mircea_popescu: dub "life is sweat and blood and making love to a woman you don't know and nobody prints your name in trilema until the day you die"
mircea_popescu: dub i bet you 90% of the ppl who read it because it's about doge never heard of dump and dillute.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is somewhat like asking for a showgirl that's read the classics.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic how do you reason to come to this conclusion ?
mircea_popescu: so do the same thing, write a lot of smart insightful stuff, once you have a ton of readers add a subscription, wait for the cheapskates to butthurt away and that's that.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if memory serves that thing started as a blog and became subscription based after building a base
mircea_popescu: <KRS-> Now her butt is going to smell like that countertop. << i'd be more worried about the reverse tbh
mircea_popescu: Μούσα, τραγούδα το θυμό του ξακουστού Αχιλέα,τον έρμο! etc
mircea_popescu: did you just stick with braindamaged blogspot and then whine that nobody seems to have noticed ?
mircea_popescu: and the fact that this will continue happening i nthe future, arbitrarily, is like... splendeed.
mircea_popescu: fuck you granpa, so you've worked for thirty years to make the us work ? here's some inflation. enjoy your fixed income.
mircea_popescu: this happens, of course, tol ALSO be exactly how "normal" fiat currencies like the dollar operate.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's fascinating how they completely gloss over the part where one group (the scammers behind it) stole the resources of the rest of the people involved (every idiot that bought some, mined some, or pumped it up until two days ago)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " That's a lot to pay for a single Bitcoin for someone just entering the market. "
mircea_popescu: you take two professional joggers and dress them up in facebook polo shirts.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 "how to spend money you don't have to pay people nobody reads to say ridiculously stupid shit which is how they got to not be read in the first place" ?
mircea_popescu: dub i have added it to the list of films the girls will be stealing
mircea_popescu: this was the perfect plot in my head : dub says its a bill, pankake says i thought its a coin
mircea_popescu: more like "our delivery would be nothing short of miraculous at this pooint "
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> lol mircea_popescu, endoftheworld.swf outside, 4 days bash queue UNACEPTABRU <<<
mircea_popescu: i didn't know you still had menstruation in frigid slovenia.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i wonder if i could get tor through cloudflare on an amazon server ?
mircea_popescu: i'm so sick of this pretend fiat capitalism thing they do.
mircea_popescu: because that's why i read netcraft reports, for bullshit product placement.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the recent netcraft report actually fucking mentions cloudflare
mircea_popescu: dub sorry your message couldn't be delivered because clourflare. ray id 98759847
mircea_popescu: those same people turn around and pay cloudlfare to... hijack their dns and talk about "rays'
mircea_popescu: the same asswipe public that keeps forcing isps to do these "unlimited" bs deals and "everything for fiddy cents" and so on
mircea_popescu: cloudflare is one of the worst things that happened to the internet recently.
mircea_popescu: i guess it must be because of all the beef they eat that includes no beef.
mircea_popescu: pankkake that shit's epic, they manage to have an entire subreddit dedicated to bitcoinstocks including no actual bitcoin stocks.
mircea_popescu: people spam naked ladies all the time, what's some bars.